Principal Product Development Engineer - Medical Aesthetics

The Role

We are hiring a Principal Product Development Engineer to drive our medical aesthetics product line, a planned succession of products brought to market back-to-back, from development through delivery. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will own the end-to-end development plan for a product line whose engineering, design, and manufacturing are driven by our internal engineering and science team together with the external contract partners who perform the majority of the work. You will keep those vendors on schedule and on spec, coordinate our internal team's contributions to the program, drive the cross-functional working groups advancing the program, and lead the evidence generation that supports a premium product. This is a hands-on, in-office role for a senior development leader who has run complex programs in the medtech or biotech space and who knows the medical aesthetics landscape firsthand.

What You'll Do

Program and project management

• Own the integrated project plan, schedule, budget, and milestones for the medical aesthetics product line, and drive execution across a succession of products.
• Anticipate risks and dependencies across development, regulatory, and commercialization workstreams, and put mitigation plans in place before they threaten timelines.
• Maintain clear, current status reporting for leadership, and keep decisions, actions, and open items tracked to closure.
• Build and maintain project schedules, milestones, dashboards, and tracking metrics in modern project management tools, and use them to keep the program visible and on track.
• Build and own a repeatable product development process, so each new product can move from concept to market quickly and maintain a multi-generational product plan.

Vendor and partner management

• Manage the external contract design, development, and manufacturing vendors that perform most of the product engineering, holding them accountable for timely, on-spec delivery.
• Coordinate statements of work, deliverables, timelines, and budgets with partners, and serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for vendor execution.
• Monitor vendor performance and escalate issues early, working with leadership to keep the program on track.

Cross-functional coordination — internal and external

• Coordinate our internal engineering and science team's contributions to the program—translating priorities and timelines into their work and joining their technical reviews of the external vendors.
• Coordinate across the working groups formed to rapidly advance the program, keeping their efforts aligned, sequenced, and moving.
• Partner with our advisory board, whose members bring extensive commercialization and manufacturing experience and help translate their input into program actions.
• Partner with our commercial function for aesthetics, aligning development milestones and product readiness with the commercial plan.

Evidence generation and product advancement

• Drive the planning and coordination of activities that build the scientific and clinical evidence base supporting a premium product.
• Keep evidence-generation timelines integrated with the overall program plan, so data milestones are met on schedule.

What You'll Bring

• Medtech / biotech project management (required). 5+ years of project management experience in medtech, biotech, medical device, or drug-delivery product development, with clear examples of complex, fast-moving programs you have driven to success.
• Medical aesthetics experience (required). Direct, hands-on experience in the medical aesthetics or dermatologic products space, for example with injectables, energy-based devices, topical, cosmetic, or dermatologic products.
• Demonstrated success managing external design, development, and manufacturing vendors to deliver on time and on spec.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams or working groups toward aggressive timelines.
• Comfortable running a portfolio or a cadence of back-to-back product releases, not just a single launch, and building the process that makes that pace repeatable.
• Enough technical fluency to credibly project manage engineers and scientists.
• Proficiency with modern project management tools such as Microsoft Project and Smartsheet, and comfort building dashboards, milestones, and project tracking metrics.
• Familiarity with the FDA, ISO, and related standards that govern medical devices and energy-based products is a plus.
• Familiarity with fabrication and prototyping processes—such as injection molding, 3D printing, CNC machining, and thermoforming—and with packaging engineering, is a plus.
• Exceptional organization, follow-through, and communication, with the judgment to keep senior stakeholders and outside partners aligned.
• Comfortable working on site in Cary and traveling to partner sites approximately 20% of the time.
• PMP certification is a plus but not required.
• Prior experience with advisory boards or working groups is a plus.